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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 10h

In 2020, the protesters took Portland; at least that's how the US right saw it. This was an existential wound in their psyche. A city once dominated by the racist right, in a state designed as a white ethnostate, fell. That’s what Trump's assault is about: turning Portland back into Skinhead City.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's attempt to bully and bullshit and bluster troops onto the streets of Portland is as much a counter-revolutionary revenge assault by white supremacist fascism as those previously attempted by Joey Gibson and Patriot Prayer - just with federal government power behind it.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 1d

“I try to normalize masking: first, because we’re still in a pandemic, and second...”—Greg Pak, writer & filmmaker best known for comic books like Planet Hulk & Mech Cadat Yu, was interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social from #MaskTogetherAmerica at #NYCC25 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social

ALT: Greg Pak, weaing a black KN95, holding “Who Belongs?” a graphic novel he wrote in 2023 for NYC Department of Social Studies & Civics @nycschools, was tabling at his booth at the New York Comic Con #NYCC2025. Behind him were posters showing graphic novels he authored, including Mech Cadat Yu and Planet Hulk.

Why does Greg Pak mask up?
Read interview by @MsJulieLam
https://www.instagram.com/share/BBHLGTPQnW

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14MssWrVBEZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Greg Pak mask up?
Read interview by @msjulieslam.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/share/BBHLGT...

www.facebook.com/share/p/14Ms...

MaskTogetherAmerica on Instagram: "“I started wearing a mask since COVlD hit. It’s a smart thing to do. It’s still a pandemic. Many of my friends are immune compromised. I try to normalize masking: first, because we’re still in a pandemic, and second, because the more people mask, the more chances #immunocompromised folks have to participate safely in community events.”—Behind the powecom KN95 is Greg Pak (@gregpaknet) a writer and filmmaker best known for comic books like Planet Hulk, Magneto Testament, Darth Vadar, Mech Cadet Yu, and Ronin Island. He was interviewed by Julie Lam from #MaskTogetherAmerica at #NYCC25 @newyorkcomiccon"

Greg Pak, a renowned comic book writer and filmmaker, discusses the significance of wearing masks during the pandemic. He highlights the importance of community safety and how masking up can provide a safer environment for immunocompromised individuals. In this video, Pak emphasizes the need to normalize masking as a responsible action for the greater good.

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Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in Horror History, BLACK CHRISTMAS was released in 1974.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 2d

Reminder that Oracle bought TikTok and has completely moved Americans into their own highly censored algorithm.

They also removed the ability to tag/search for Portland =)

Oracle is violently evil and extremely pro-genocide (Israel)

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

"Don't you ... forget about tree."

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 3d

A lot of suffering would have been prevented if that was the way the story went

𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖐𝖓𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖘 @clove.bsky.social · Jan 23

save me, official promo art where misato and ritsuko unambiguously fucked

nge promo art of misato and ritsuko sitting near the edge of a bed with beer cans on the floor

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real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 2d

business pitch: the bank gives me money* to buy an XRF gun and people hire me to go thrifting with them so I can check their scores for lead

*just a cool $30,000 or so

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real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 2d

secret hack to beat coffeeflation: marry someone who works at a grocery store and you can be swimming in expired bags of fancy coffees. they're free! and the only downside is they will just always taste a bit stale

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 5d

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.

Pritzker’s brown shirts attacking protesters.

Pritzker’s brown shirts. Dude in military gear is also Pritzker’s.

Note the Illinois State Police patch on the dude in military gear.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 3d

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 4d

I know that Gazans are celebrating, but I don't trust this at all. This is a deal with the devil if I've ever seen one.

I fully expect Hamas to comply and release the hostages, and for Israel to resume the genocide.

Gaza peace deal reached, hostages to be freed

The announcement comes two years after Oct. 7, with 67,000 Palestinians killed.

www.axios.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

being invisible and mad is a miserable state

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real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

no I will not fix my typo. you fix your typo.

real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

the fact that I can't search "portland smoke" and actually see information about the smoke from burning metals that had our air quality in the 130-200 range last night is just really pissing me off

real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

we're going to see very possible environmental impacts completely buried in the news because shitbags always want to make this place a culture war, and suddenly everyone thinks our antifa is so "portlandia"... because it kind of is...

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real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

there was literal toxic smoke blaneting the south side of the city and out to our rural neighbors last night, from a fire at a recycling plant in Vancouver (where all our cops live), but when you search for information about it all you see are jokes about far right fear mongering targeting our city

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rssenior.bsky.social @rssenior.bsky.social · 4d

A fire at a metal shredding plant in Vancouver WA is sending a plume of noxious smoke over NE and SE Portland since before 10pm.

Screenshot of purple air map of Portland showing a plume of smoke extending SSE from a fire in Vancouver WA.

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real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

actually so scared for every living being outside right now

real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · 4d

people outside of portland are posting about our politics, people from inside of portland are posting about the toxic smoke we're breathing from the huge fire at the metal recycling facility over in vancouver